by Doug Hammack | Aug 2, 2009 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
by Scott Brown Jesus’s admonition to love our enemies and turn the other cheek may be mis-interpreted due to the lack of cultural context he placed it in. Find out what Jesus may have intended it to mean by looking for a third way to react to an insult to you....
by Doug Hammack | Jul 25, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
We conclude our lesson on thinking about what the words “Jesus died for our sins” mean. Today we look at other stories that frame our understanding besides the “penal substitution” theory of salvation. We consider the Ransom Theory, the...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 18, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
In this lesson, we look at some of the problems with the most common way Western Christians think about salvation. The “penal substitution” theory of salvation was advocated in the 11th century by a man named Anselm, and while it was an excellent way of...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 11, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
Having laid two weeks of foundational concepts, we turn in this lesson to some introductory remarks about what we think the words “Jesus saves us from our sins” mean. In this lesson, we begin looking at some other ways of thinking about this than the...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 4, 2009 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
by Doug Hammack In this 4th of July weekend message, we talk about the importance of Liberty, especially interior liberty. The freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights don’t mean much if we don’t have an attendant interior freedom to go along with...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 27, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
In this continuation of last week’s variation on our “Two Views” series of lessons, we continue laying the ground work for how we think about Jesus. by Doug Hammack Christians say that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus was about more than just a...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 20, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
by Doug Hammack This would be a continuation of the “Two Views” series of lessons, and we would call it “Two Views of Jesus.” However, over the course of this lesson, we’ll encounter at least five historical views of the life, death and...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 13, 2009 | Message Audio, Spiritual Allies
by Doug Hammack We continue our break from our 2-Views series of lessons, and revisit a central them of NRCC, spiritual friendships and community. We’re looking at the importance of having allies for the spiritual journey, and in this lesson, we look at how one acts...
by Robin Camu | Jun 11, 2009 | Guest Speaker, Individual Lesson, Message Audio
by Robin Camu The Theory of Learned Helplessness is a “theory in psychology which alludes to a human condition in which one has learned to behave helplessly even when the opportunity is restored for one to help oneself ”. Some of us have brought these tendencies into...
by Doug Hammack | May 30, 2009 | Message Audio, Spiritual Allies
by Doug Hammack We take a break from our series of lessons on Two Views to revisit a central them of our spiritual community. We’re looking at the importance of spiritual friendships, “allies for the spiritual journey.” In this lesson, we look at...
by Doug Hammack | May 16, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
by Doug Hammack In this lesson, we conclude our look at two views of people. We see that the common view of ourselves as foreigners on the earth, waiting to go to heaven to find our heart’s true home tends to make for a version of Christianity less engaged with...
by Doug Hammack | May 10, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
by Doug Hammack There is an old-time hymn titled, “This World is Not My Home.” The sentiment behind the hymn, and behind a common Christian view of humanity, is that we (ie the followers of Jesus) are resident aliens on this earth. We’re just waiting to get snatched...
by Doug Hammack | May 5, 2009 | Another Way to Pray, Message Audio
Originally presented 01/13/2008 by Doug Hammack We’ve laid a foundation for questioning the instinctive assumptions we make about spirituality and prayer. So, I suggested that we’ve been tooling along for several generations now thinking that when we pray, we get God...
by Doug Hammack | May 3, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
by Doug Hammack We’re doing a series of lessons called “Two Views.” The last lesson we looked at Two Views of God. This week, and for the next couple of weeks, we’ll look at Two Views of People, and after that, Two Views of Jesus. In these introductory remarks before...
by Doug Hammack | May 2, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
by Doug Hammack How we think about God profoundly affects how we think of the Christian journey. Today, we continue examining how our image of God as King, creates a different version of Christianity than does an image of God as Lover. ...
by Doug Hammack | May 2, 2009 | Another Way to Pray, Message Audio
Originally presented 01/06/2008 by Doug Hammack Many of you have told me that prayer no longer has the same meaning to you it did at one time. Some have asked and asked and asked for something, and it hasn’t happened so they don’t ask any more. And doing this long...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 30, 2009 | Another Way to Pray, Message Audio
Originally presented 02/10/2008 by Doug Hammack Coming to God in face of painful circumstances is a deep act of faith. Because these are heroic acts of spirituality… (and because we often need baby steps before heroic steps) To be successful in these new practices, we...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 28, 2009 | Another Way to Pray, Message Audio
Originally presented 01/27/2008 by Doug Hammack When we began the spiritual journey, many of us picked up some assumptions about prayer. Many find that “God-do-something” prayer grows empty after a while. Many people are not inclined to take ugly stuff before God. But...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 19, 2009 | Message Audio, Two Views...
by Doug Hammack How we think about God profoundly affects how we think of the Christian journey. Today we examine the God of Requirements and Rewards, and the God of Love and Justice. ...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 13, 2009 | Easter, Message Audio
by Doug Hammack In this lesson, Doug speculates what the resurrection of Jesus may have been like. Have a listen. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2009/4-12-09_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
